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Please check your internet connection. The players have minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a second increment from move 1.

The first player to reach 6. If still level they play an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw will make the black player World Champion.

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A so-called cookie stores identifiers that make it possible to respond to your individual requests. Zagreb Chess Federation Sponsor: Sports Association of the City of We are excited to announce the resuscitation of famous Croatian tournament — The Tournament of Peace.

The first Tournament of Peace was played in and then in , The event is featuring three sections: Master, Major and Minor. The tournament consists of the Hoogeveen Matches, the Hoogeveen Open and two amateur tournaments The last round of the event will be played today promising many interesting The entry for the amateur groups of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament will start at 10 am on 29 October.

What can chess lovers wish for more than being The first batch of tournaments - GM, IM Some favorites have confirmed their positions on the penultimate day of the championship.

The prize fund will be divided 60 percent to the winner and 40 percent to the loser if the match ends within the 12 regular games.

After each game, you will find detailed news reports by our authors MikeKlein , PeterDoggers and our photographer Maria Emelianova misslovalova , who will all be in London to provide on-site coverage each day.

These are most important things to know:. The world championship of chess has a long tradition. The first official match was held in between Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz.

The latter won, and became the first official world chess champion in history. Alekhine won back the title but due to his death in , it became vacant.

Karpov was declared world champion. He defeated Nigel Short and Vishy Anand , but lost to Vladimir Kramnik in , who thus is considered to be the 14th classical world champion.

Kasparov and Kramnik did not participate, and they didn't follow the tradition of one-to-one matches. Anand took over the title from Kramnik in a tournament in in Mexico, and subsequently defended it successfully in matches against Kramnik in , Topalov in and Boris Gelfand in Magnus Carlsen defeated Anand in in Chennai, and successfully defended his title against the same opponent in , and against Sergey Karjakin in